MacBook gets firmware update

When the MacBook mooing is over, there must be a fimware update abound.

We all know that, from time-to-time, the first revision of Apple hardware has "some issues ." The current revision of MacBooks and MacBook Pros are no exception to this unwritten rule. One issue with the MacBooks that had managed to slip under my radar was a certain barnyard sound that MacBooks fans are making when they turn on and off in succession. That's right: apparently MacBooks were mooing.

Well, Apple has released an SMC firmware v 1.4f10 to remedy the fan misbehavior and to make the mooing a thing of the past. According to early reports, not only does the update fix the mooing but it also lowers your MacBook's temperature significantly.

It is nice to see Apple fixing things that aren't functioning properly (of course it would have been even nicer if they had caught this problem before releasing the MacBook). We have to believe that if MacBooks worldwide were moofing instead of mooing, Apple users would have seen the sound as some sort of divine intervention from Clarus the Dogcow instead of a hinderance. The sound did make me smile so go have a listen before all the mooing is gone forever.